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#! rnews 1439 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!chi-news.cic.net!cs.utexas.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.erols.net!news1.erols.com!news From: Ken Bigelow <kbigelow@www.play-hookey.com> Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: What cylinder to start from? Date: Fri, 09 Aug 1996 07:54:06 -0700 Organization: A poorly-installed InterNetNews site Lines: 20 Message-ID: <320B510E.7416@www.play-hookey.com> References: <32093D6A.1102@aloha.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: 207.96.82.59 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 2.02 (Win16; I) DuckHunter wrote: > > As you can see, I''m a full blown neophyte when it comes to hardware, > what cylinder should I specify to start from in FIPS if I don't want it > to overwrite any of my existing Win95/Dos files? Should I just leave > enough space in the 'old' partition to cover all of the files? And not > worry about what cylinder to start from? FIPS won't overwrite active data, so you needn't worry about that. For the rest, you'll need to decide how much space to allocate to FreeBSD, and how much to leave for Win95. That depends on the intended size of your installation and whatever you'll want to do with it. No one else can decide that for you. -- Ken Are you interested in | byte-sized education | http://www.play-hookey.com over the Internet? |